Kharon's Crypt: Even Death May Die

01.02.2022

Genre: Puzzle Adventure Indie Arcade

Kharon's Crypt is an eerie non-linear dungeon crawler game full of puzzles, riddles and deadly challenges, and graphics designed to follow the aesthetics of the beloved Game Boy Color. In Kharon's Crypt, you'll be playing as Kharon (a being thought to be death itself) in his mission to escape from the crypt where he had been sealed by a deranged king that wanted to elude death. As Kharon, your abilities are flying, going through physical objects, and stun your enemies. To defeat your opponents and escape from the crypt, you'll need to steal the bodies of your enemies by possessing them. You'll be able to fly in a bat's body, fight from inside a skeleton, or even use a mimic's abilities to help yourself hide. Do you have what it takes to escape from the crypt and compel the Deranged King to meet his fate?

Once upon a time... There was a king so deranged that he wished to defy his inevitable fate...Death. When Kharon, the one who carries dead souls to their final rest, came to his castle, (pause) the insane king imprisoned Kharon in a cursed urn using black magic, thus preventing him from claiming the soul he had come to take. However, The king knew that Kharon would not stay contained inside the urn forever, So he ordered to find the best and more experienced sorcerers and architects... (pause) To dig under his castle and build the most abyssal crypt ever built. And, with the help of dark pacts and blood magic, he sealed Kharon's urn in it. And the urn was left to rest in the depths of that eerie place. And there it lay, still and intact, waiting in the dark. Until today...